Cocaine is actually the better bet (in profit terms)
According to this page
http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/op3.fwx?submit1=showop&caseno=03-1368.PDF
Price of coke is $80 per gram so you would have to produce about 390KG of coke to get $31million in REVENUE per month. Considering it is illegal, adding in bribes and shipping and growing and processing etc. etc. etc. Maybe you produce a ton or two to make a profit of $31 Million per month.
Assuming that cocaine is like tea (well it looks like tea bushes in all the movies) and according to this site http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/businessline/2001/10/30/stories/073065te.htm
you get 1.8 tons of tea per hectare.
Hypothetical cost of an acre in remote area is $500 so investment for the land is about $1500 (then add cost of plants, planting, watering, protecting, shipping, bribing etc etc etc.)
Nothing like the investment of $250Million+ for a license and equipment costs, salaries etc.
Now I can see why Columbia has a problem. The investment to profit ratio is truly ridiculous.
Kiggs
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